Pattern: 'Don't Be a Meat Proxy' Names the Failure Mode of Relaying Agent Output Unread

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Simon Willison coined the term on August 3 for the practice of pasting an LLM's output onward — into a PR, a ticket, a Slack thread — without reading, validating, or rephrasing it. His argument is that the human's value in an agent workflow is precisely the verification step, and skipping it makes you a lossy transport layer rather than a reviewer. The term is landing because it gives teams vocabulary for a review-quality problem that had previously been hard to call out without sounding like an objection to AI tooling in general.